{"id":399530,"date":"2022-12-02T05:26:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T05:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=399530"},"modified":"2022-12-02T05:52:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T05:52:11","slug":"world-cup-what-body-type-works-best-for-football-a-professor-of-biomechanics-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/world-cup-what-body-type-works-best-for-football-a-professor-of-biomechanics-explains","title":{"rendered":"World Cup: what body type works best for football? A professor of biomechanics explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been watching the World Cup, you might have marvelled at the physical fitness and skill of these elite players. How can they run and run and run for so long? What makes them so good at speedy changes of direction? Biomechanically, is there a certain body type that is perfect for football?Of course, much of the brilliant play is down to natural talent combined with years of very hard training and practise. But there are certainly some physical features that help a lot when it comes to being able to play football at this level.Spain&#8217;s Rodri (16) and Japan&#8217;s Daichi Kamada vie for the ball during the first half of a World Cup Group E football match at Khalifa International Stadium. Kyodo via AP ImagesDifferent features for different positionsThere&#8217;s no one single perfect body type for this sport; much depends on what position you play.A central defender, for example, might benefit from a bit of extra height so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been watching the World Cup, you might have marvelled at the physical fitness and skill of these elite players. How can they run and run and run for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}